netdev - Re: [PATCH net] Revert "virtio_net: replace netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() with napi_alloc

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Message-ID: <CANn89iKOiZhOZ1jstMyzfx6KsjfcNmNJ4EFxq=ZbweQyjRtv0w@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:53:38 +0100
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] Revert "virtio_net: replace netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align()
 with napi_alloc_skb()"

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 4:51 PM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
>

> To be clear, I now think the revert is not needed.
>
> I will post instead a patch that should take care of the problem both
> for virtio and napi_get_frags() tiny skbs

Then later, we might change things so that the sk_buff cache being
changed by Alexander Lobakin
can also be used for these allocations.